This is the first Acqua Plugin product in VST, VST3, AAX, AU format fully dedicated to the needs of bassists, and is one of the most authentic and modern-sounding bass amp plugins on the market today.

Graphite includes:

• Emulation of the GR Bass One head
• Emulation of the AT 212 (2x12") bass carbon fiber cabinet, sampled with four different classic microphones, each one selected and placed by pro audio experts.

Our challenge was to faithfully recreate the sound of the GR Bass One head in combination with the AT 212 cabinet, also produced by GR Bass. The head was designed according to their “pure sound” philosophy, producing a realistic sound with natural transparency. The AT 212 is the lightest 2x12’’ bass cabinet available in the world: it’s part of their revolutionary AeroTech series, and is an example of the incredible technical advances that GR Bass has achieved with its carbon fiber cabinet line.

Now, you can enjoy the signature sound of the GR Bass in an all-in-one plugin — our first dedicated solely to the needs of bass players. The Graphite plugin comes in a standard version and an alternative “ZL” (zero latency) version, which works like a dream when tracking. It will cost you extra processing resources, but the resulting reduced latency is very handy if you need to play in real time

Thanks to its intuitive, single-screen interface, this plugin can adapt to any musical style, delivering ultra-solid bass tones for fingerstyle, pick or slap bass. For fine-tuning and sculpting of your sound, you can use the powerful 4-band equalizer, then add a dose of your D.I. to the output mix signal by using the plugin controls.

Graphite is precise, easy to use, and packs enough power to shake your studio from the ground up.

Transparency is one of the main characteristics of the GR One solid-state head. It includes a 4-band equalizer which allows you to sculpt the sound according to your needs, but that’s not all: in addition to the usual low- and high-shelf controls, two additional mid-band equalizers allow you to choose from three central frequencies each. And to top it all off, both deep and bright filters give you control over any extra punch and/or definition you might need to achieve your custom bass sound.

Compared to similar, wooden cabinets on the market, the AT 212 (2x12'') carbon fiber cabinet has better focus, more sonic detail, richer tone and a more open sound — not to mention its significantly lighter weight. After a painstaking design process, an intense sampling and optimization phase (and thanks to the invaluable input of the GR Bass team themselves) Acustica was able to effectively capture the essence of this one-of-a-kind bass cabinet with all its tonal shades, harnessing it all in one plugin.

• Elfo Recording Studios offered a fascinating live room environment thanks to their high-profile functional design. Its excellent acoustics and a natural, balanced reverberation in its frequency response helped to enhance the incredible sound of the sampled equipment.
  
• Precise, incredibly accurate sampling.
  
• A careful selection of the four sampled microphones: an American dynamic microphone (model 57), an American ribbon microphone (model R10), a German FET condenser microphone (model 47) and a German dynamic microphone (model 421).
  
• Carefully chosen microphone positions during the sampling process.
  
• Optimization of the product during the development phase, with the goal of ensuring low consumption of CPU; interaction with the plugin in a natural way with minimal latency, without affecting the sound quality.